The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated., April 17, 1919, Image 4

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A Speech Not Delivered
When Milton A .Miller attended
the kixh I rmids banquet and meet at
Ix-bnn-in he was too unwell to de
liver his mldreaa in full, but »imply
made extemporaneous remarks The
address in full ha1 Isi-n handed u-
for publication. There is so much
gissl in the speech that The Tribune
Hives it publicity. It follow»:
.Mr. Chairman, nivmlien» of the
He i» ail I of the population lives in the cities,
I say that in union there is
right and we pin our faith to him. the majority of the people living •trength
The county commissioners are old there are poor. Every one will con­
We gave awav four and one-half
n-Mdents >>f the county, know its! cede that it ia far better to raise million d«dlars. If the m Mt influ­
iM-cds ami »land ready to do their ; children in the country than in the ential citizen of Oregon had pro
part. So. my friends, the n«ad is 1 city. You want to build up the posrd five years ago that we raise
clear ami let us go to it.
country and keep the people on the 15.000.0ti0 in Oregon for a certain
Wr have the f-ir«-«t reserve monev farm; keep the young men and purpose, the answer would have
t«> bmi nt ua
We are not asking any young women from going to the txren that it Could not b«- done, that
special favors from that source, all city; to do thia we must improve it would bankrupt th«- state; that it
we ask is justice. We want to build the roads, transportation facilities was Impossible; that it was ridiculous.
a road aertxai th«- Santiam route; we must be greatly increased.
But, my friend», th«- imp«ssib!e
want to connect with Eastern Ore­
To sum it up. build g<xxl roads has b<-rn aeeomplis/x-d and I do not
gon
It will conn«-ct two sections first; then establish good rural tree know ths- ve are anv weaker by it.
of the state and prove to lie of great delivery systems, establish good If the war had continued wr w--uld
commercial value. It also is a won­ schools: establish a good telephone have continued to do just as we
derful scenic route
It will 1* in­ system, enable the farmer to mar were doing.
viting to everybody. It will Iw as ket his product to the liest possible
Do. my friends, the few millions
us«*ful as any road that can I* built advantage. When you have acorn that wr put upon our mads will not
in this state. It will serve market plished this you will tn a great ex strain us financially and it will br
purposes.
lent solve the rural problem. I be­ the lamt inv«-stment we «-ver mad«*.
Our fath«-r» in their weaknea con­ lieve the m<*st «-ssential of all is
Good road* can I«* defended from
structed this wagon r,«ad across the good roads.
every standpoint. Good mads Ix-n-
mountains. It is well and favorably
Do you realize from a financial efit everybody lx-t u< get together
known throughout the slate. Die standpoint what we have accom- for om* grand and glorious cause,
opening up of this road will be re- I plished during this war. here in Or­ the cauM- of giMMl mad* and rural
evived with joy by many of our cit­ egon?
homes.
izens. In uur str«-ngth we ought to
Our allotment of liberty bonds
I «-arnestiy at>|««-al to th«- n«-wspa-
preserve what our fathers did in fur the four loan« was lhO.(MX).tM>0, per men of Linn counly to assist in
their w< akmThere was n<> duty we subscribed 1103.54fi.0o0.
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they fail«*d to perform; no sacrifice
Wr gave the Red Crews 12.232.253 ing their sup|x»rt to any legitimate
too great for them to make.
Wc subscritied to war saving« enterprise which will as*i*t in bring­
In the McKmzie pass proj«jct. stamps 118,000.000.
ing alxiut this result, whether the
amounting to 54 mil«-», lame county
We gave to the Armenian fund, same be locate*! in Harrisburg.
ers 753.31n acres, of which 300,000 will |>ay but 115,000. Ihwchut«*» to the Jewish relief, to the Y. M C Sw«*et Horne, Foster, or Mill City.
‘county llO.OoO ami th«- state and A., to the Y. W. C. A., to the united W'e cannot afford to take a selfish
ar«- owned by th«- government.
They are going to build good I government will share the remain- war work campaign; in all eleven view.
roads all over this state
We are dvr, amounting to 13-54.000. equally driv«*s we did our part.
By uniting and pulling together
going to I m - tsv I to a certain ex­ lietween them.
We subatfribed to bonds, W. 8. S. we can accomplish great things.
tent for this to l«e d<«ne
A million . You ran therefore readily see that and gave away a total of 1125.981,- There ia nothing that will assist in
dollnrs is a mere bagatelle. It is a it is the policy of the highway com­ 091.
bringing the people closer together
very small amount of m«>ncv a« com- mission to assist in the construction
1125.000,000! That is more mo­ or doing more for all the ueople
parc<l to our rvsourres and the ad - of laterals wherever they can, which ney than there was in our banks a than good roads.
vantag«*» to be r«wiv«-d from the in my judgment is a very wise and few years ago; am! yet. my friends,
just policy to pursue
It shows that is what we accomnlisned and Advertise in The Scio Tribune and get
proper expenditure of th«- same.
results.
Why not take ail vantag«- of it. that they are thoroughly interestd
get all th«- outside money we can in building roads for all |«arts of the
stale. .
ami build roads for «Mirwlv«-»?
The possibilitm» of (irr-gon are
Ix*t me remind you, mv fellow
I sometimes think its
citizens, that Linn county ha« not. wonderful
in my ju<lgm»-nt. received what site mo»t enthusiastic sup|x>rters and
I
ought to r«- -vlve from this splendid beet inform*! citisene as to its re-
In Some Town Over There is a Baby
state, but I am not here to blame source«, etc , have but a faint id«*a
Who Can Live If You
any on«» for it, or to criticize, but really of it# greaUww. You must
Say the Word
simply t<> «-all your attention to a bear in mind that it is very large in
area, that the population of this
By B ruce B arton .
few void facts:
state
could
live
entirely
within
its
Benton county s»-ciir«-«l th« agri-
I sometimes picture it to myself this way.
culw.inl college, when- hundred* of own r. sources, that it has a varied
Sup|*ose that somewhere down town in New
York. or in Chicago or St. Louis, there were a
thousands of dollars are s|«-nt every climate, product*» everything: and
huge auction room, where the live# of men and
nowhere i^r haps in th,-known world
year.
of little children were on sale.
ia
ther«-
such
scenery.
I’
he
cry
now
1
Ian«- county sccuml th«- stat«-
th«-y had raised f.'iiMi mxi an«l naked
the commiiMiin Co match It. They
ex;«-«*t. my fru-nd«. to rai>w fl.inai,.
• mhi mor».
Umatilla county has recently
booded itself f-»r 11,000.0IM> for
good roads
A dollar will go much
farther in Umatilla county than it
will in Linn countv. so far as con­
structing good roads is concerned
Marion county is planning to build
I.10 miles of laterals in her border#
at a cost of mimething like 11.000.-
000. Certainly it is time for lunn
county to get in the procession and
do her part. This is a gr<-at county;
it is a rich county; it is out of debt.
Every dollar we put into roads will
bring us tiark ten or twenty, to aay
nothing of the «.nveriertce and lien-
«•tit it will be for th«- people to trav­
el about and get liettrr acquainted
and hav«- a better understanding of
this old county and state
The material for building the
roads is here at hand
Linn county is largi r than Rhode
Island and almost the same size as
Delaware. It has an area of 2243
squar«- miles, or 1.433.520 aert-s Its
population is 25.»W>. <>r 11 I to th«-
square mile.
It has a wealth of
131 .( h NI. i XH) SMM-sM-d valuation. The
standing timber in Linn county cov­
state highway commission. Mr Cecil
of the forest service, tnemliers of
th« county court, l»r. Hewea of the
post roads service, reprew-ntativi
of th«* pt esc, ladies and gentlemen:
I ain more than glad tn lie with
you at this limo
I mnKralulate
you upon thia meeting. I coiiuratu
late you upon the spirit that pre
vails here; and I congratula’e you
upon the cause that brings us to
gether. I might add that I con
gratulath you on living in the great­
est republic known to history; living
in the la st country known on earth,
and living in the best part of the university, where much money is
atM-nt annually;
I m - s I country.
In Marion county, on our north,
In union there is strength. That
is an old saying, but it is as true to is locate«i the stat«- capitol, where
day as at any time in the history of millions arc spent each year;
r«.lk county, our near neighbor,
the world, and if ever that saying
was proven bevond question of a has the state normal school.
So you will understand that Linn
doubt it has l>ecn mi proven since
the United States entered the world county has receivisl but little state
money. Now. it occurs to me that
war
We had no idea in a way of our it is about time for us to get in the
strength. We did not realize our procesaion and take advantage of
power. We did not, in my humble the opportunity and help ourselves.
We have forest reerrvt* money
uptn'on, comprehend our riches. We
ar«- the richest nation on earth. We available for roads and we have a
are th«- richest nation that wps ever trie«! and tru«- friend in Mr. Cecil.
on earth. Since we d«-clared war W«- have post r--ad money available
we have appr<>priat«>d practically to build roads and we hav«* a splendid
thirty billion« of dollars, loaning the friend in Dr. Hew,-a. who is at the
allies la-tween mn«- and ten billions, head of th«- same. We ar«- assured
and spending for the coats of the of splendid support from th«- high­
war something like twenty billions. way commission.
Now let us all get together and
And y«-t. my friends, we have more
buihi roads. Bring Linn county into
money than we ever had.
We are here tonight to discuss her own and we wiii all rejoice to­
the subject of good roads and build­ gether. Th«* r>«a«l from Haliu-y to
ing them
This road movement has Brownsville; Brownsville to Sw«-«-t
taken <»n tremendous proportions in Home, ia a post road. The rood
the stat«- of Oregon. It is no longer from la-ban->n to While Uity. wher •
a question of money; it is a question we meet the forest reserve, is a post
of getting th«- roads built. Every road. Th«* road from ls-banon to
m-ction of the stat«- is raising money lau-omb is a post road, and no doubt
and ap|>ealing to the state, the na­ there are other roads in Linn county
that may be consider«*,) post roads
tion, and different source» for aid
So, mv friends, you »•■«• what an
I am mighty gla«l the state high­
way commission is with us this eve­ opportunity w«> have by acting. an«i
ning, I want U> congratulate them acting quickly. let us raise a mil­
upon the splendid work they are lion dollars or more and say to our
doing and want to assure them of county court, "spend the monev.”
my earnest support in their efforts We have faith in them; w- know
they are heart and soul in this cause
to gridiron Oregon with highways.
I was talking with K. A. Booth in and will give the l*e»t efforts of their
Portland a few days ago. He had offices. God bl«-ss them.
in more ways than <>ne.
is, "see America first " They are
constructing highways across the
continent; everv state is building
roads, they are spending millions
for this purpose; fifty, sixty, seven­
ty. or one hundrt*«! millions are be­
ing spent by some stat«*».
Construct the roads we are talk
mg alMiut and we «ran sit in our
homes and see cars from all states
of th«- Union, and w mderful will be
Hit- changt- and great will be the
results.
How many of us here have seen
Oregon and n-allv comprt-hemi its
wondeis? I*«*ople in this city said
to me last summer that they rode in
their automobile from la-banon to
8we«-t IL-me; Sweet Home to Hol­
ley; Holley to Crawfordsville, ami
l>ack home by wav of Brownsville,
and «aid it was a wonderful ride;
that they had a revelation of the
beauties and resources of this county
such as they had never imagined.
Many of us have lived here for
many years and yet no doubt a trip
over thia state would t«e a revelation
in many ways as to Oregon’s possi­
bilities
I have talked with men
who have tidtcici over the world; I
heard a gentleman of Belgium who
saui I m - had I wen around the world,
and he saw noth ng that compared
with the magnificent scenerv that he
saw in the commonwealth of Oregon.
Th«- money will be spent at home;
the farmer can market his crop to
much better advantage and thereby
lie enai-led to get back whatever
cwt it mav tie to him in a very short
time
The farming population in
llTOfWas 49'7 of the entire popula­
Suppose that every day the auctioner’s red
flag hung out as a sign that on that day so many
men were to be allowed to die, so many women;
and so many little ones.
Allowed to die, just for the la- k of a few dol­
lars. Just for the want of th«, little sum that
would ransom them.
Supoose that were the case, I say to myself;
could 1 possibly stay away? Is there any argu
ment I could give to myself that u old keep m<-
from going there day alter «lay, and buying with
all my power? Buying men and w- in- i ami
children, at that auctioneer’s Ho- k, with the dol
lars that would mean life t » thm?
It’s not a very pretty picture; vet comftared
to the pictures that I have -<cen fiom sin* ken
Armenia and Syria, and all he empires of the
Near East, it is almo-t beau*, fill
For men and women and < hil-lrcn are dying
over there—dying for the lack of sums that seem
pitifully, miserably small.
I am not rich, and 1 have all the little worries
that are common to us middle cla-s folks. Wor
ries about next year's income tax; and alwut
the future of business, and where my income
will go to if such and such things take place.
But I have a worse worry than that
The
worry for what my conscience will say to me,
if in this hour of the world's tribulation I do not
do my share.
The worry lest in my ears for the rest of my
life there should be the cry of a nun. or a woman,
or a little child whose life I might have saved
For they are crying over there today, stretch­
ing out their weak, tired arms And it’s a mar­
vellous thought to me. that mrxlest as niy income
is, it’s big enough to let me save the life of one
of them—big enough to give me a man, or a
woman, or a child who will nevir cease to be
thankful that I did my part.
They are waiting for our answer over there:
yours and mine: A poor stricken man broken by
the war; and a woman, weak from her struggle
and terror; and a baby who can live and grow up
into useful manhood or womaidiood, if only you
•ay the word.
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